Iranians Offended by Cheerleaders at World Basketball Championship
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Cheerleaders donned black leggings and white T-shirts for a World Championship basketball match between Iran and the United States in Istanbul on Wednesday to respect cultural sensitivities. Some Iranian officials still left the arena shortly before their routine began, however. At previous matches officials had stood up and turned their backs. Cheerleaders were missing altogether from Turkey’s last two matches in Ankara, raising eyebrows in the overwhelmingly Muslim but officially secular nation, particularly as scantily-clad cheerleaders had been present at other matches. Patrick Baumann, secretary-general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), said “special arrangements” had been made with the dancers’ dress on Wednesday. “We want entertainment to be part of the basketball game. If it needs a little bit of adjustment that is fine with us,” he told a news conference. “It is a balance between respecting the culture and making sure basketball delivers all the pace, excitement and entertainment that goes with the World Championship.”
That’s it. I was never really on board with this whole multiculturalism, celebrating diversity nonsense and now I am officially checked out. I’m not a hater or a racist, but we’re supposed to respect other people’s cultures but they won’t respect ours? Look, the rest of the world took our manufacturing, they’ve taken the lead in high tech, I can’t call customer support without getting a guy in Sri Lanka who’s smarter and speaks better English than me, and they’re even beating us in baseball. The US is now down to three things we do better than the rest of the world: Basketball, individually wrapped cheese slices, and producing hot, slutty cheerleaders. And that’s it. Why can’t the Iranians appreciate the deeply felt cultural bond between America and the scantily clad tramps who entertain us? Cheerleaders are one of our most sacred institutions and I’m deeply offended Iran is being so insensitive towards us. Like Maximus says in Gladiator: “I’ve seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Cheerleaders are the light.” So true. Kiss my ass, rest of the world.
@jerrythornton1
Since when do they have cheerleaders at international tournaments? You don’t see that for the Olympics, or World Cup, kinda strange, not against it, but strange.
In the immortal words of The Iron Sheik……. USA USA USA
Yes, yes, yes and yes
Fuck the Iranians. Just. Fuck. Them.
We have FOOTBALL right??
Love the post Jerry! Good job!
I am a hater though. Fuck them ignorant, backwards cavemen.
Dirka, Dirka, Dirka, Mohamed Jihad, slutty chicks bad
Dirka, Dirka, Dirka, Mohamed Jihad, berkas and suicide boombers good.
Screw these camel jockeys and their ass backward goating fucking ways.
After we beat their smelly asses in hoops we should drop a little nuke on their asses as the US plane is pulling away. That’s what I call culteral diversity. Go America. Fuck yeah and fuck Alex Baldwin!
A FUCKIN + post. Fuck these terrorists. Teach them if they dont like just shut the fuck up. We tolerate you now fuckin tolerate us. DONE
Yes, we tolerate foreign countries by invading their country and setting up a military base on their land.
Fishy, seriously? You’re kidding right?
therealrico said:
“Since when do they have cheerleaders at international tournaments? You don’t see that for the Olympics, or World Cup, kinda strange, not against it, but strange.”
They had them in the Olympics. Hot Asian ones. TV just sort of ignored them for some reason. Stupid world.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Why-can-t-viewers-see-more-of-the-Olympic-cheerl?urn=oly-101390
Fishy is balls on you buncha war mongering meatheads
No I am not actually. Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and you’ll see what I am talking about.
Our country sends in professionals to 2nd and 3rd world countries and they falisfy reports about a structure such as a dam that will help boost their economy. Except the reports aren’t right so this 2nd or 3rd world country falls into extreme debt. So, instead of paying us back we tell the country that we either take their UN Vote, put up a Military base or fuck it even both. It is a way of controlling other countries. Can’t say I blame our Goverment but damn.
Like Jay E sed Fishy get a fuckin clue
These Iranians are like cockroaches….now we’ll get to see if they can survive a nuclear blast. Go Israel!
Fishy I read the book too, but I think you are choosing the wrong forum to get those points across.
Haha, touche.
that video never gets old!! Great post, did we actually invent individually wrapped cheese slices?? thats cool….
US has military bases in something like 130 countries. You can make of that what you will, but I can see why it may lose us some friends and give our enemies a pretty powerful message.
They don’t ALL hate us because they’re jealous.
And, yes, some of these Muslim strictures would embarass a school board in Kansas. They seem almost as afraid of women’s sexuality as many of the posters here.
What’s the big deal? They can leave or turn their backs or not show up at all. Who cares? Sorry if your 6th century religion conflicts with the world in 2010, but they are invited to show up and there is also an open invitation to hit the fucking road.
I understand that they’d want to respect Iranian culture more than they’d expect Iranians to respect ours since we’re in their territory. It’s like Mexicans coming to the US (legally or illegally) and us wanting them to respect our culture. LEARN ENGLISH DAMMIT!!!!
Just this once, I’ll provide a translation:
¡AYUDA INGLÉS, PUTAS!
Difference is the immigrants are coming here to live. We are going there to play a game. Basketball is an American sport. We play the game the way we want. Granted sports here have more of an entertainment aspect to it (i.e. cheerleaders, pre, half, and post game show, etc.) but thats what it is for us. If they can’t respect that and get over themselves and stop complaining about America for once then FUCK THEM!
Fuck it, if any of you don’t think the US should have the most military bases and strongest military in the world I hope you realize your other options are China or Russia.
War and politics are never perfect and always a choice between evils. And the US government for all it’s flaws is infinitely better and fairer than those of Iran, China or Russia.
so none of the promised virgins are dressed as cheerleaders? puh-leeze